The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-11-10
THE LOST CAUSE.
Address of General Henry Jackson to the
Confederate Veterans at Macon.

New York, Oct. ga Macon, Ga,
special 10 the Herald says: Last night
great torchlight demonstration occurred
in honor of Jefferson Davis. General
Henry Jackson, ex.Minister to Mexico,
in his speech to the veterans yesterday,
said:
Confederate Veterans There stands
upon the soil of Georgia a distinguished
Mississippian, who, within the life of the
present generation, was aso-called traitor
leader Of so-called Lost Cause. We,
Confederate veterans, relict of the armies
which fought for that cause, are here to
meet him, to move before HMM the
pride and pomp of no Roman triumph,
it is true, but bending our necks to no
Roman yoke of subjugation by invitation
of the State of Georgia, speaking through
her duly empowered officials, all have
come. Behold majestic Truth revealing
berself State sovereignty is not dead /!
Georgia is sovereign still, and calls upon
her people to glory with her to day. Her
glory is in her history. Her history is
the memory of her dead, and this day is
consecrated to her Confederate dead.
They were guilty of no treason to her:
To whom, then, could they be traitors? ?
Where shall we seek their higher sover.
eigu Shall we fiud him in the Federal
Constitution? Then there was a sover.
eign smitten to earth by traitor hands,
trampled in the dust by traitor feet, but
the hands and feet were not theirs. Do
we hold that the men who fought against
them were traitors? Not at all. They,
too, were loyal to their sovereign. The
Constitution was but treaty between
high contracting sovereign parties, with.
out one atom of sovereignty j" itself,
since with impunity, through long years
of painful agitation, was it broken by the
sovereign parties of the North. They
enacted into crime mere attempt of
Federal power to force its decree within
their doninions; and because, after de-
cades of endurance, as patient as it was
delusive, the sovereign parties of the
South declined to accept this revolutions
ry will in the permanent place of the
Constitution, compact becoming the
soyereigns of the North, with numbers
overwhelming and material unbounded,
made aggressive war upon them to force
them to accept it. The world has been
told that the people of the South made
war to perpetuate African slavery. This
is false. They did not create or institute
it, nor do they now wish to restore it.
The principle for which we tought-the
only principle of government expressive
enough to meet the requirements of the
advancing civilization made of late by
Gladstone's eloquence, so familiar to
European thoughts-was American born.
Red with the blood of Confederate heroes,
moist with the tears of Confederate
widows and orphans, eastward shall it
continue to roll, carrying with it the
blessed light of Christian civilization, all
around the globe; and so surely as it
moves itsball bring day offnal triumph.
In that triumphal procession Abraham
Lincoln shall not move as the rightful
President but Jefferson Davis, the so.
called traitor leader of the 30 called Lost
Cause. We, as Confederates, can echo
from our hearts the patriotic cry Of
Webster, the great, "Thanks be to God
that I, too, am an, American citizen"
But if the so called New South, base
surrender of old, false confession, meanly
false, ofsheme in our past, shame in our
sires, shame in our dead, which none but
the silliest fool can honestly feel, then
with all of the power given to US by God,
of truth we cry, "Avaunt, false South /!
avaunt, rotten trunk, upon the cursed root
y.fruit must turn to ashes !"